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Universal Orlando Theme Parks Dining Plan Announced

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Don’t tell Mickey; sometimes we venture off Walt Disney World property to take in the sights, sounds, and food at other parks.

Universal Orlando!

Since you might also go on these non-Disney adventures, we want to tell you about the Universal Orlando Theme Parks (Universal Studios Florida and Islands of Adventure) Dining Plan. After all, if you save money at Universal, you’ll have more to splurge back at your favorite Disney parks and resorts!

The Universal Orlando theme parks have announced the Universal Dining Plan giving guests the option to book their meals and snacks when booking a Universal vacation.

When we went to Universal Studios in Orlando last fall, the food was less than stellar. Being a person who has gone to WDW many times and has been to some of the best restaurants found there, my family and I were not pleased. But, we didn’t particularly care for Universal Studios anyways, we just wanted to see the new Harry Potter World in Islands of Adventure. But, thanks for the information!

The lack of TS restaurants as of now are a bit of a downer. But, if I remember correctly it took a while for WDW to rope in many of the restaurants that are now on the DDP list now. Universal needs to get it’s hotels and the missing City Walk places on board and that will make the plan worthwhile for their guests.

As someone who does not eat meat I find universal very poor in terms of food options. There was little more than greasy cheese pizza as an option in any of the quick service locations when I last visited. I also ate at bubba gump shrimp and found nearly everything to be deep fried. Until universal improves its dining options I would not consider buying the plan.

During my last few visits, I have to say that the food choices, particularly sit down restuarants inside the park, were limited and not particularly appetizing. The only ones we found moderately edible were Mythos in Islands of Adventure and Finnegans at Universal. Except for those two, I found most of the food to be deep fried and greasy, or mass produced and casually presented.

Universal needs to seriously step up if they want to compete with Disney on food. Offering a meal plan isn’t the solution.

The best food option at Universal is Butterbeer in Harry Potter land. Not much else is that great.
But they did just open the new Simpsons land with Krusty Burger and others that may help.
They still got nothing on Disney food wise.